Elephant - Captive in Anchorage Alaska, Maggie is alone, depressed and must be relocated! Options

[Jude]

Zoo board chooses California sanctuary for Maggie

Alaska Daily News reports: Maggie the elephant, the subject of intense debate this summer, will be heading to the Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary in San Andreas, Calif., the Alaska Zoo Board announced Thursday.

Zoo officials said an agreement should be finalized within two weeks and the African elephant will be on her way south before winter if things work out.

PAWS recently offered to pay for Maggie’s relocation costs during a high-profile visit to the zoo by TV personality Bob Barker.

The announcement comes after mounting criticism of the zoo that it was dragging its feet in getting Maggie to a warmer climate.

To view source click here:

www.adn.com/front/story/9300026p-9214619c.html

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[Jude]

Zoo board chooses California sanctuary for Maggie

Alaska Daily News reports: Maggie the elephant, the subject of intense debate this summer, will be heading to the Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary in San Andreas, Calif., the Alaska Zoo Board announced Thursday.

Zoo officials said an agreement should be finalized within two weeks and the African elephant will be on her way south before winter if things work out.

PAWS recently offered to pay for Maggie’s relocation costs during a high-profile visit to the zoo by TV personality Bob Barker.

The announcement comes after mounting criticism of the zoo that it was dragging its feet in getting Maggie to a warmer climate.

To view source click here:

www.adn.com/front/story/9300026p-9214619c.html

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[Jude]

100 Days Since the Alaska Zoo Board of Directors Voted to Relocate Maggie


PRESS RELEASE - ALASKA ZOO

Alaska Zoo Board Selects New Home for Maggie and Will Work To Move Maggie Before Winter

Anchorage, AK – The Alaska Zoo Board of Directors in a unanimous decision selected the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) in San Andreas, California as the first choice for a new home for Maggie, the Alaska Zoo’s lone African elephant. The preliminary decision will be finalized after a site visit to the PAWS facility by Zoo officials and a mutually acceptable agreement is reached between the two facilities.
We anticipate an agreement to be reached within two weeks and will proceed with the effort to relocate Maggie prior to winter. The offer of $100,000 by an anonymous donor will not be part of the agreement.
The PAWS’ elephant facility - ARK2000 is a 2,300 acre facility with 75 acres dedicated to its African elephants. PAWS staff is well versed in introducing integrating new elephants into their group. Maggie will join four other African elephants at the facility. The facility has 24-hour veterinary care, a 20,000 square foot barn equipped with a Jacuzzi for the Africans. PAWS is experienced in transporting elephants and has successfully relocated six elephants in the past three years.

Dick Thwaites, board president, said this has been a time-consuming and complex process and the board believes, in choosing PAWS as Maggie’s new home, they have selected the best possible facility for her. “PAWS will be able to provide Maggie with the companionship of African elephants in a well-equipped facility with plenty of room to roam.”

Paws founder Pat Darby states the “PAWS directors and staff are pleased to hear of the Alaska Zoo’s decision. Maggie will be a welcome addition to our group of African elephants who range in age from 25 to 40 years old, and we will begin preparations immediately for her relocation, arrival, socialization with new human and elephant companions.”

With an agreement in the works, zoo staff will continue to concentrate on relocation preparations:

• Maggie was examined by an outside elephant veterinarian earlier this week. She is in good health, continues to heal and was given clearance to travel.
• The Alaska Zoo will continue to “crate” train Maggie utilizing her treadmill until the traveling crate arrives.
• The PAWS and Alaska Zoo staffs will work in conjunction to coordinate the relocation logistics including ground and air transportation, the animal transport team, veterinarians and staff required for the move.

In the meantime, we will continue to provide Maggie with the highest level of care possible and encourage everyone to appreciate and enjoy her.

September 12, 2007
Contact: Pat Lampi, Executive Director
Alaska Zoo
Phone: 346-2133

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Now is the time to send a heartfelt email to the Alaska Zoo Director Pat Lampi and the Zoo Board congratulating them on their decision.

Alaska Zoo Director, Pat Lampi
plampi@alaskazoo.org

Alaska Zoo President, Dick Thwaites
directors@alaskazoo.org

Alaska Zoo Owner, Sammye Seawell
directors@alaskazoo.org

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PAWS SHELTERS & rescues captive wildlife on a 30-acre sanctuary in Galt, CA.; a 100 acre refuge for large exotic birds and hoofstock (the Amanda Blake Memorial Wildlife Refuge) in Herald, CA., and the 2300 acre natural habitat sanctuary (ARK2000), in San Andreas, CA.

Maggie will be moved to the San Andreas habitat sanctuary and will eventually be introduced and living with three African elephants named 71, Mara and Lulu. her very own kin group at last!

To learn more about Maggie's impending new home click here:

Performing Animals Welfare Society (PAWS)

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There were many tears around the world over the past few days as news of Maggies move rolled around cyberspace. Tears of relief that the long and arduous and heartbreaking fight to have Maggie moved has come to fruition. The many women and men in Alaska and elesewhere in the lower 48 have worked for years, despite the setbacks, the worry, the fear that she would die and never know a calm, spacious and happy home. They can be proud of what they have acheived.
Good work everyone.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)

[Jude]

Three Friends of Maggie visited her on the weekend to celebrate the great news of her move. They were heartened to see that Maggie has put on weight and is looking a little healthier than in June and July. Little by little her wounds are healing - and we know that soon she will be in the care of PAWS veterinarians and carers.

At the time of the visit it was 54 degrees (F) and cloudy. Although her injuries still look serious and seem to be healing slowly, we noticed she wasn't fussing with them as she had been earlier in the year when she was constantly touching them with her trunk and blowing dust on them. While her wounds still look raw and open, they look clean.

It was an absolute delight for us to observe her and know soon she will be living in a place with lots of warm sunny days and grass beneath her feet, lakes to swim in and lovely humans to care for her.

Oh My! she truly is a beautiful elephant!!!

Indeed she is and soon she will be a beautiful elephant with ele-kin about her and wide open spaces.

Photos Used with Permission. By Lisa J. Seifert 2007 ©

[Jude]

Les Schobert writing on the Ethics and Animals - ethicsandanimals.com Blog reports: The next few months will be critical for Maggie. She must be moved safely to PAWS and integrated into the group of other African elephants. There can be great risks in these processes. Maggie will be taken out of her compound for the first time in many years, put into a crate, loaded onto a truck to the airport, then loaded onto the plane and off at another airport, transferred to another truck, and finally off-loaded at the sanctuary.

To view Les's entire blog entry click here:

ethicsandanimals.com/2007/09/16/maggie-will-be-moved-to-paws.aspx

[Jude]

Arlene Battishill, a friend of Maggie has just returned from a visit to the PAWS Sanctuary Report.

I spent this past weekend at the PAWS sanctuary and was absolutely overwhelmed by how incredible the place is. There is SO much land there, the owners AND all of the people who work there take incredible care of the elephants and Maggie is going to have a great life there! One of the amazing things about the sanctuary is that not a minute goes by where at least one of the people there isn’t radioing the other about where one particular elephant is or where another one is and who’s seen who where. They deeply care about the elephants and they spend a great deal of time watching them so they can understand their behaviour, moods, attitudes, everything that will help them to provide for them.

The four Africans that Maggie will be joining are wonderful elephants and I know that Maggie will be a welcome addition to them. Ruby, the elephant from Los Angeles has a temperament that is so gentle and loving and I know Maggie is going to take to her right away. The same thing happened with Lulu who is there. She was brutalized by another elephant that she lived with for many years and is fearful of other elephants and Ruby has done wonders with her in such a short amount of time. Mara and 71 are equally delightful and each of the four of them have VERY unique personalities.

I’ve attached a picture of the four Africans, one of whom is likely to teach Maggie how to climb fences to eat bark off of Oak trees!!!

To all my ele-friends, Maggie’s life is finally about to begin!

Arlene

[Jude]

Quick Update

Maggie's care has now been transferred to PAWS staff and they are responsible for all her needs including preparing her for the move to the PAWS Sanctuary.

Penelope Wells from Friends of Maggie will visit Maggie during the week to see how she is faring.

Nice to know that very soon our girl will be winging her way to California to spend the rest of her life with her kin.

[Jude]

Maggie is going to PAWS in California - yet for a long time The Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary was a favoured contender in the Elephant Advocates world. This special report takes an inside look on what a sanctuary offers to those Elephant who have been 'retired" from active servitude.

An Elephant's Tale In Tennessee

CBS News special - www.cbsnews.com reports: There is a place for circus and zoo elephants to go after they retire. It's in rural Tennessee. This is an elephant's tale. Dulary lived in Philadelphia, where she put in 43 years at the zoo employed as an exhibit, never missing a day, but was laid off this year. There was a retirement party where her friends came to say their goodbyes.

But where would Dulary retire? Elephants don't have 401(k)s and a choice of retirement communities. There's really only one that's exclusively for pachyderms: the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn. Started in 1995 by Carol Buckley and her partner Scott Blais, it has grown to 2,700 acres, a place where elephants can literally run wild - although, being a retirement home, they usually walk. It is something of an elephant paradise.

To view entire article click here

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/07/sunday/main3339972.shtml

[Jude]

PAWS staff are responsible for Maggies day to day care and have been training her for air travel in a crate.

Preparing Maggie for the big move
Report and Video from KTUU.com

Trainers at the Alaska Zoo have been quietly preparing Maggie, the state's lone African elephant, for the trip to her new home in California for some time now. They've been coaching her on air travel for several hours a day, since shipping an 8,000-pound pachyderm isn't a simple task.

"If she's really willing to participate we go for the high goals," Tessa Cara says. "If she's kind of feeling cranky, perhaps, then we take those down a little bit but we still work with her."

To view the entire article click here:
http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=7224490

To view the news clip with Maggie M-o-v-i-n-g! (which is exciting for a gal who has only seen pictures) click here:
KTUU.com pop up movie player - Maggie Story

[Jude]

Maggie's Transport Container Arrives!

The US Airforce is on hand to inspect the container and there are indications are that they will be moving Maggie - more in the article...

KTUU.com reports: The Alaska Zoo took delivery this morning of a specially-made shipping crate that will house Maggie, Alaska's lone African elephant, during her trip to California.Maggie is being relocated to an elephant sanctuary there after twice being unable to stand up on her own earlier this year.

The 10,000-pound steel crate is designed specifically for shipping elephants and contains restraining bars and heaters. The crate is currently attached to Maggie's outdoor pen.

To view the entire article click here:

http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=723...p;nav=menu510_2

[Jude]

Maggie's moving day 1 November 2007

A Maggie Visit
by Penelope Wells, Friend of Maggie

As slushy snow fell outside, I watched Maggie for an hour this afternoon in her elephant house. A quiet day at the Zoo, I pretty much had Maggie to myself. Her "war wounds" seemed to be healing well and her mood was good as she walked about her enclosure.

She came over and did the usual raising her trunk "I'm checking you out" action. I told her how excited we all are that she would soon be walking over grassy hills in sunny Calfiornia and would be meeting her new gentle sisters . . . real African elephants, Maggie! I told her all her fans send their love and best wishes for the journey ahead.

Despite the big challenge, I got the feeling that Maggie, together with her experienced team, is up to the task. Thank god, she won't be spending another long lonely winter confinement in Alaska.

After a while I realized she was keeping a close ear on voices emanating from the keeper's room in the back. After about 30 minutes staff emerged armed with lots of treats, target sticks and praise for Maggie as they prepared her for a foot chaining session. (All four feet have to be secured for the flight).

During a pause, Jamie (Maggie's main keeper) introduced me to Margaret Whittaker, Maggie's trainer from PAWS. Together with another zoo keeper, the three of them put Maggie through her paces. It was fascinating to watch. Maggie was asked to present her two front feet through the training wall. She was very compliant and seemed to take it all in stride. Of course, she was showered with treats and waisted no time transferring them to her mouth.

In this particular session, they worked with three legs total. Two front and one back leg. According to Jamie, Maggie's used to being chained with two legs for veterinary purposes but three and four legs was new to her. I must say I was encouraged to see the progress her training team have made.

Maggie's Crate

I was told that the crate, which arrived a couple of days ago, was taken over to Elmendorf AFB today on a trial run for loading onto the C-17 cargo plane that will--all being well--transport Maggie to Travis on November 1st. This was terrific news but the price tag the Air Force is charging is mind boggling. $215,000 to $300,000! Everyone thought transporting Maggie would be a humanitarian/good will mission. Does anyone have influence to to at least secure a discount? I'm sure PAWS would love to hear from you.

[Jude]

Air Force will fly out Maggie

Alaska Daily News - ADN.com reports: The U.S. Air Force will fly Maggie, Alaska's only elephant, to her new digs in California next week.

Officials at Elmendorf Air Force Base were asked to transport the 25-year-old African elephant to an elephant sanctuary run by the Performing Animals Welfare Society but needed approval from the Pentagon to do so, said Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Kelley Jeter.

CS17 Aircraft will be used to move Maggie

To view entire article click here:

www.adn.com/news/alaska/anchorage/maggie/story/9408622p-9320353c.html

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The $200,000 price tag from the Airforce is a bit rich considering this is an Administration that has to date spent several Trillion dollars on the 'War on Terror": www.alternet.org

I can understand that US citizens may not be happy for their hard earned tax cents to be spent on one elephant...

Still, that Maggie is flying soon is of such a huge relief and joy that lets not quibble about $$$

Jude

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Another female African elephant with a bad start in life needs your help!

Chamilandu

A New Arrival...Chamilandu

Chipembele Wildlife Education Centre is becoming a hot spot for Elephant rescues. Here Anna tells us about the drama and concern of receiving their next ele-orphan.

To read the Tale from Chipembele's Anna Tolan click here:

Hot spot for Orphaned Elephant rescues

Photo Anna Tolan - Used with Permission

[Jude]

Alaska Daily News - ADN.com reports: If any of the roughly 280,000 people in Anchorage decided to pack up and move this week, not one of us would draw the kind of passionate tributes and heartsick farewells showered on Maggie the elephant Saturday.

To view entire article click here:

www.adn.com/news/alaska/anchorage/maggie/story/9413513p-9326086c.html

[QueenCeleste]

Hello,

I am new to this board, drawn by the long saga of Maggie. This week I received notice from PAWS that Maggie will be flying there to live! I was thrilled to read this, as I have been a member of PAWS for over a decade and have visited the sanctuary where Maggie will live (for a fund raising event). It was spectacular! The elephants have acres and acres of land, ponds, vegetation and indoor enclosures. The thought of Maggie living her out her years in this paradise for elephants is just overwhleming to me. Hats off to all of the Alaskan (and other) activists who made this possible. And to Pat Derby and Ed Stewart, tireless advocates of performing animals.

[QueenCeleste]

P.S.

Not to rain on the exciting parade of Maggie's transfer, but...

I just noticed on the Friends of Maggie main page a quote from Alan Roocroft and felt sick. He was responsible for the terrible beatings of an elephant, Dunda, at the San Diego Wild Animal Park almost twenty years ago. I attended the public hearings on this horrific incident. If anyone is interested in reading more, just Google "Dunda beating"--if you have the stomach to read about this atrocity. I had hoped I would never hear this man's name again, so to see it on the site of a group dedicated to helping elephants was startling, to put it mildly.

[Jude]

Welcome QueenCeleste, Maggie's life and plight is a story that that has brought people from all over the world together. I was disturbed to read that the quotation on friends of Maggie Site was made by a man who has harmed elephant and hope you will bring this to their attention, you can email Penelope Wells at friendsofmaggie@ak.net. It is lovely to have you aboard and thanks for all the work you do for our beloved elephants.

Maggie enters her crate in training.
Photo by Paul Joslin (Used with Permission)

Operation Maggie Flight is ready for launching

Alaska Daily News - adn.com reports: Alaska's elephant heads south today on Air Force wings and Alaskans' good wishes. After four decades of elephant-keeping, the Alaska Zoo hands over its beloved pachyderm Maggie to a sanctuary in California today. Wednesday afternoon, Maggie had her last preparation exercise. Later, zoo officials, handlers, sanctuary representatives, and the U.S. Air Force, which has agreed to fly her in a C-17 air cargo plane, met to discuss the last necessary details.

To view the entire article click here:

www.adn.com/news/alaska/anchorage/story/9421512p-9334000c.html



To view the Alaska Daily News - ADN.com slideshow "Saying Goodbye to Maggie" click here:

www.adn.com/photos/multimedia/slideshows/maggie/


A precis of all the Alaska Daily News - ADN.com Maggie Coverage is here:

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/anchorage/maggie/

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My father, Ray Price, died today. Yesterday, as my mother and I were sitiing at his bedside in hospital with him, quietly chatting about Maggie's move and Chamilandu and Chudoba's rescue, he said.

Elephants are wonderful creatures aren't they?

It was really the last thing he said to me in the world. He was so pleased that Maggie was moving. And so proud of me for my (very small) part in it.

First November will alwys be the day that Dad died and Maggie moved...

Vale Dad.

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Operation Maggie Flight is ready for launching : comments

All the best

Finally, the day has come and I hope and pray that Maggie wil stay calm and her big move will not be too stressful for her. Congratulations to each individual who has worked so tirelessly to lobby for Maggie's repatriation to a warmer climate and more conducive place of residence.

Particularly the Friends of Maggie. Penelope Wells, Paul Joslin, David Hancocks and others. There have been many people working from all around the world to bring this about. it is a joyous day indeed.

Margaret Mead once said: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. "

Congratulations also to Sammye Seawell and the rest of the Board of Alaska Zoo, Pat Lampi and Maggie's keepers. I am glad you saw sense and had it in you to make the right decsion. Please concentrate now on your mission of Alaskan Animals.

May the PAWS team and Maggie's new family have an easy time of it in her introduction and ongoing care.

Most of all, that Maggie can now live a relaxed life out of the "public" view in the company of her "kin" is the most important and joyous news indeed. Fly well Maggie.

Jude Price
(Australia)

[Carole Lorraine]

Everyone involved with Maggie and her long battle to freedom are surely overcome with mixed emotions today. Our dear friend Jude has lost her own dear father but won a great battle for Maggie on the same day.
Life works in many many ways. ....
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[QueenCeleste]

Jude,
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Many thanks for the welcome. I confess I am confused about the sites and thought this was the Friends of Maggie site. I will email them. And thank you for posting all the links to stories about Maggie. I have been praying for her and a friend lit sticks of incense in his incense burner I purchased at the PAWS sanctuary.

My condolences on the death of your father. I was so touched by his final words.

[Jude]

It is such a joy to see Maggie in her new surroundings in the Performing Animals Welfare Society Sanctuary located on 2,300 acres of pristine, natural habitat (ARK 2000) in San Andreas, California.

After 20 years of a cold and lonely life, Maggie is living in warmth with the companionship of 4 African elephants - Lulu, Ruby, 71 and Mara. The quartet were all incredibly interested in the the newcomer. Pacing the fence line, trunks extended, chatting amongst themselves.

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Maggie News Video Round-up

For a KTTU Video round up including a special 8 minute retrospective '25 Years of Maggie' click here:
Note: 23.30 minute viewing time

KTTU.com - Maggie Roundup Special

KTVU.com report includes three video items:

SLIDESHOW: Maggie's Journey To Her New Home

SAN ANDREAS: Claudine Wong Reports On Maggie The Elephant's Long Trip To San Joaquin County

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE: Animal Behaviorist Margaret Whittaker Talks About Maggie The Elephant's Journey To Northern California

California’s KRCA3 - kcra.com video report:

www.kcra.com/news/14493190/detail.html

To view cbs13.com news story video click here:

cbs13.com/local/local_story_306191333.html


Web and Print Based Media Reports

At last picked up by an Australian media service!

The Australian newspaper The Age - theage.com.au reports:

www.theage.com.au/news/world/maggie-the-alaskan-elephant-comes-in-from-cold/2007/10/30/1193618884842.html

The International Herald Tribune - www.iht.com (France) reports:

<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/28/america/NA-GEN-US-Alaskas-Elephant.php" target="_blank">http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/28/...as-Elephant.php</a>

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The ARK 2000 live Ele Cam can be accessed here:

www.pawsweb.org/web_cams.html

An update from PAWS about Maggie's arrival and first day can be read here:  PAWS_Maggie_Arrival_Update.pdf ( 22.35K ) Number of downloads: 28

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In writing to a friend in Africa yesterday I told her about Maggie and her life and new found home, of the years of solitary living, of the work of the Friends of Maggie and other individuals and groups and the generosity of Bob Barker in his $750,000 donation to Maggie's ongoing care. Once again, all the way across the world, yet another person was moved to tears by Maggie's story. My friend said

Funny how they always seem to find the money to move them TO the zoo but never AWAY from it. It makes my blood boil. I can't bear the thought of an African elephant suffering in the cold like that for 20 years, and suffering all the other unsuitable conditions.

In moving Maggie - the joy of it, the fact that there are humans who care enough about one lonely pitiful elephant to want to do something to restore her to a warm, conducive life, to reunite her with some semblance of family - is heart-warming and healing and helps one to go on trying to make a difference in a world full of unspeakable atrocities against animals, the environment, on every continent of this diminishing Earth.

We can be proud of the work done here and share the happiness and sense of accomplishment in having Maggie moved, and that will always be with us.

Now, there are other Elephant in unsuitable conditions, 42 in Canada alone and the individual and group efforts in the westernised world will continue, as it should.

Yet in various countries in Africa - the elephants cradle and place of origin they are under constant threat - because of the Chinese and Japanese ivory markets. The ivory is traditionally used for medicine, carved figurines and art-objects to admire - status symbols, object d'art with rivers of blood in their shadows.

Elephant are shot/wounded some dying instantly, some running and later suffering from their wounds, dying an ignoble death and leaving babies to starve to death. Some are crippled, go down and then are just hacked to death by local Africans with machetes or pangas - with their tusks ripped out and their meat carved up or just left to rot.

These men are paid a pittance by the Big Men, the Ivory Bosses who get fat and corrupted on the wages of death. Often the control is coming from inside governments, and kick backs and slipery money changes hands to allow the illegal trade to continue.

The benefits don't end up in the local villages, it is government officials, relatives of high powered positions that run these cartels and live the high life. Locals are still impoverished, reliant on the meagre wage and trapped in a vicious cycle.

There are orphaned elephant as a result of the murder or wounding of their mothers for their tusks. One such young elephant needs our help too...

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Twenty years after Maggie was 'spared' death in a culling operation in Zimbabwe and shipped across the world for the entertainment of Alaskans, Chamilandu's mother was shot and killed by the Zambian Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) to put her out of her misery. She had been shot in the leg by an illegal hunter/poacher and the resulting gangrenous wound meant she was suffering terribly. Her daughter, now named Chamilandu witnessed her death.

Chamilandu was rescued and bought to the Chipembele Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation centre near Mfuwe in the South Luangwa Valley. Zambia. Here, Steve and Anna Tolan are caring for this 1 year old traumatised baby. She needs to be moved as soon as possible to the Elephant orphanage in the Kafue National Park so she can be with other elephant and receive the care and assistance she needs to give her the best chance for life.

Chamilandu...

You can read more about Chamilandu and how to help here:

Chudoba and Chamilandu's Tale

Chamilandu's relocation costs will be $5000, she will not survive the 30 hour road trip to Kafue from Mfuwe, airlift is the only possibility to ensure her the best chance.

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How you can help

If you would like to assist with the funds to move Chamilandu you can securely donate through Chipembele's Secure Portal via Just Giving here:

Just Giving - Credit Card Donation

(Clicking on this link does not commit you to the donation - once your donation is made please email info@chipembele.org and let Anna Tolan know that you have made a donation specifically for Chamilandu's care and/or relocation costs)

To find out more about alternative methods of donation click here:

Chipembele Donations Information

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[Ross]

It is amazing to follow Maggie's story and to see her finally being given the chance to be an African Elephant

Judy all I can say is, BRAVO!!!

my thanks to all the people that help make this come true and thank you for the time you put into this.

Well done!!

Ross

[Jude]

Maggie's Big Day Out

While the other 4 PAWS elephant were kept in their barn, Maggie went out for a wander in the Big Paddock!

The gate's open!!!

To view slide show on photobucket.com click here:
Maggie's Big Day Out

(Since posting this some of the images in the slide show have been removed... the shots showing Maggie in the long paddock, walking all the way up the fence have dropped out, so the slideshow is a brief glimpse of her step through the gate)